-Fateful note of the day: On July 16, then Bruins defenseman Aaron Ward downplayed talk of his team being in the Winter Classic saying, "Don't jinx me yet. I could always be traded." Nine days later, he was traded to Carolina.

-How devastating was the Red Wings' loss in the Stanley Cup final to the Penguins? Red Wings forward Dan Cleary (right, not exactly doing a bang-up job in a positional battle with Kris Letang) has had to spend his entire summer in Detroit.

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